Abstract

We have used the homotopy analysis method (HAM) to obtain solution of Davey-Stewartson equations
of fractional order. The fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. The results obtained by this method have
been compared with the exact solutions. Stability and convergence of the proposed approach is investigated. The effects of
fractional derivatives for the systems under consideration are discussed. Furthermore, comparisons indicate that there is a very good agreement between the solutions of homotopy analysis method and the exact solutions in terms of accuracy.

1. Introduction

In recent years, fractional differential equations (FDEs) have been the focus of many studies due to their appearance in various fields such as physics, chemistry, and engineering [1–7]. On the other hand, much attention has been paid to the solutions of fractional differential equations. Several techniques including Adomian decomposition method (ADM) [8, 9], Laplace decomposition method [10], homotopy perturbation method (HPM) [11], variational iteration method (VIM) [11], and differential transform method [12] have been used for solving a wide range of problems. Another powerful analytical method, called the homotopy analysis method (HAM), was first proposed by Liao in his Ph.D. thesis [13]. The HAM contains a certain auxiliary parameter which provides us with a simple way to adjust and control the convergence region and rate of convergence of the series solution. This method has been successfully applied to solve many types of nonlinear problems [14–17]. For instance, Jafari and Seifi have solved diffusion-wave equations and system of nonlinear fractional partial differential equations using homotopy analysis method [18, 19].

In this paper, the homotopy analysis method [13, 20] is applied to solve fractional Davey-Stewartson equations:
The special case is called the classical DS-I equation, while is the classical DS-II equation. The parameter characterizes the focusing or defocusing case. The classical Davey-Stewartson I and II are two well-known examples of integrable equations in two space dimensions, which arise as higher dimensional generalizations of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation [21]. Although there are a lot of studies for the classical Davey-Stewartson equation and some profound results have been established, it seems that detailed studies of the fractional Davey-Stewartson equation are only beginning. We intend to apply the homotopy analysis method to solve the fractional Davey-Stewartson equations. We will also present numerical results to show the nature of the curves/surfaces as the fractional derivative parameter changed.

2. Preliminaries and Notations

This section deals with some preliminaries and notations regarding fractional calculus. For more details see [6, 22–24].

Definition 1. A real function , is said to be in the space , if there exists a real number (>α), such that , where , and it is said to be in the space , if and only if .

Definition 2. The (left sided) Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of order of a function , , is defined as
where is the well-known Gamma function.

Definition 3. The (left sided) Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of , of order is defined as

Definition 4. The (left sided) Caputo fractional derivative of , is defined as
Property. Similar to integer-order differentiation, fractional differentiation is a linear operation:

2.1. The Relation between Fractional Derivative and Fractional Integral

Theorem 5. Assume that the continuous function has a fractional derivative of order ; then one has

3. Homotopy Analysis Method

Let us consider the following system of differential equations:
where are nonlinear operators and are unknown functions. By means of generalizing the traditional homotopy method, Liao [15] constructed the so-called zero-order deformation equations:
where is the embedding parameter, are nonzero auxiliary parameters, and are auxiliary linear operators with the following property:
where is constant. are initial guesses of , are unknown functions, respectively. It is important that one has great freedom to choose auxiliary things in HAM. Obviously, when and , it holds
respectively. Thus, as increases from 0 to 1, the solution varies from the initial guesses to the solution . Expanding in Taylor series with respect to , we have
where
If the auxiliary linear operators, the initial guesses, the auxiliary parameters are so properly chosen, the series (11) converges at ; then we have
Define the vector
Differentiating (8) times with respect to the embedding parameter , then setting , and finally dividing them by , we obtain the th-order deformation equations:
where
The solution of the th-order deformation equation (15) is readily found to be
In this way, it is easy to obtain for , at th-order; we have
When , we get an accurate approximation of the original equation (7).

4. Analysis of Fractional Davey-Stewartson Equations with the HAM

In this section we apply the proposed approach for solving the fractional Davey-Stewartson equations. Without loss of generality, first we separate the amplitude of a surface wave packet into real part and imaginary part; that is, . Then we rewrite the fractional Davey-Stewartson equations in the following form:
To solve (19) by means of homotopy analysis method, we choose the linear operators
with the property , where is constant.

We now define nonlinear operators as
The initial guesses are considered as follows:
In view of the discussion in Section 3, we get the following recursive relations:
where

5. Results Analysis

In this section, some numerical results are presented to support our theatrical analysis. We consider the following initial conditions:
where
and are arbitrary constants.

By the same manipulation as in Section 4, we will have In the same manner, using recurrence relations in (24) the other components , and can be obtained.

6. Convergence and Stability Analysis

This section is devoted to prove the convergence and stability of solutions for fractional initial value problems on a finite interval of the complex axis in spaces of continuous functions.

Theorem 6. If the series , converges, where is governed by (15) under the definitions (16), it must be the solution of (7).

Clear conclusion can be drawn from the numerical results and Theorem 6. Our approach provides highly accurate numerical solutions without spatial discretization for the problems. Overall, results show that the proposed approach is unconditionally stable and convergent. In other words, we can always find a proper value of the convergence control parameter to ensure the convergent series solution, and our approximate results agree well with numerical ones. It should be pointed out that the response and stability of this type of problems in general can also be studied in a similar way. For further information see [25].

Tables 1, 2, and 3 show the absolute errors between the approximate solutions obtained for value of by the homotopy analysis method and the exact solutions. It is to be noted that only the two-order term of the homotopy analysis method solutions for the special case is used in evaluating the approximate solutions for Tables 1, 2, and 3. Both the exact solutions and the approximate solutions of , and (for the same parameters as mentioned before) are plotted in Figures 1, 2, and 3.

Table 1: Absolute errors of .

Table 2: Absolute errors of .

Table 3: Absolute errors of .

Figure 1: (a) and (b) The surface shows the solution for (8): (a) approximate solution for ; (b) exact solution. (c) Four profiles of approximate solutions for some values of : blue line (), mauve line (), green line (), and red line (), when , and .

Figure 2: (a) and (b) The surface shows the solution for (8): (a) approximate solution for ; (b) exact solution. (c) Four profiles of approximate solutions for some values of : blue line (), mauve line (), green line (), and red line (), when , and .

Figure 3: (a) and (b) The surface shows the solution for (8): (a) approximate solution for ; (b) exact solution. (c) Four profiles of approximate solutions for some values of : blue line (), mauve line (), green line (), and red line (), when , and .

7. Concluding Remarks

In this paper, the homotopy analysis method has been successfully applied to find the solution of fractional order Davey-Stewartson equations. The convergence and stability of the HAM solution was examined. Results reveal that the solution obtained by the homotopy analysis method is an infinite power series for appropriate initial condition, which can, in turn, be expressed in a closed form, the exact solution. Moreover, in the comparison of HAM with VIM method we will find better approximations. The results show that the homotopy analysis method is a powerful mathematical tool for solving Davey-Stewartson equations of fractional order. In other words, the proposed approach is also a promising method to solve other nonlinear equations. Finally, HAM yields convergent solutions for all values of the relevant parameters whereas a previous study only provided convergent approximate solutions for small . We pointed out that the corresponding analytical and numerical solutions are obtained using Mathematica.